Beth Bye | |
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Member of the Connecticut Senate from the 5th district |
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Assumed office January 2011 |
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Preceded by | Jonathan Harris |
Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from the 19th district |
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In office January 2007 – January 2011 |
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Preceded by | Bob Farr |
Succeeded by | Brian Becker |
Personal details | |
Born | Greenwich, Connecticut |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Tracey Wilson (m. 2006) |
Residence | West Hartford, Connecticut |
Elizabeth "Beth" Bye is an American politician from Connecticut. A Democrat, she is a member of the Connecticut Senate representing the 5th district, which includes part of Bloomfield, most of Farmington, all of Burlington and all of West Hartford. Bye served two terms in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011.
Bye was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She graduated from St. Mary's High School (that school is now Trinity Catholic High School in Stamford) in Greenwich in 1980 and from the University of New Hampshire with a master of arts degree in child development in 1989.
Bye was first elected to the West Hartford Board of Education in 2001. She is the former director of Trinity College's Community Child Care and the School for Young Children at Saint Joseph College. Bye has been involved with the development of three preschool facilities since 2000; The School for Young Children in West Hartford, The Charter School for Young Children in Hartford and The Wintonbury Early Childhood Magnet School in Bloomfield.
Bye conducts research about the impact of economic integration with Carlota Schechter. Their research was published on Early Childhood Research Quarterly in March 2007 and was featured in the newsletter of the National Institute for Early Education Research in July 2007.